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Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the second type of criticism that Augustine suggests "On Christian Doctrine" would face?
(a) Criticism from those who refuse or are unable to apply it.
(b) Criticism from those who face punishment if they try to apply it.
(c) Criticism from those who claim too many Christians could not access proper training.
(d) Criticism from those who claim that Augustine relied too much on training and not enough on divine guidance.

2. What other subject does Augustine addresses in Book Three and Book Four?
(a) Understanding how to learn from Scripture.
(b) Understanding how to convey what one learned from Scripture.
(c) Teaching the doctrines of Scripture.
(d) Understanding how scripture develops community.

3. What is the step that Augustine identifies an individual should take before entering into a proper relationship with God?
(a) An individual must sell all possessions and give the money to the Priest.
(b) An individual's eyes must be purged and God's plan and healing must be followed.
(c) An individual must leave their mother and father and cleave to the Church.
(d) An individual must repent of their sins and be baptized.

4. Augustine endeavors to answer many questions about what subject in Book One?
(a) The doctrine of Scriptural infallibility.
(b) The Christian conception of love.
(c) The doctrine of God's omnipotence.
(d) The Christian conception of Christ's deity.

5. What are the three things Augustine identifies as how God inspires His children?
(a) His death, resurrection, and promise of return.
(b) His illuminated truths, special gifts, and signs.
(c) Signs, things, and enjoyment.
(d) The promise of His return, His illuminated truths, and signs.

6. What does Augustine use to illustrate a thing to be used?
(a) A delicious meal used to to bring friends together.
(b) A pot for cooking a delicious meal.
(c) A friend who has the special gift to cook a delicious meal.
(d) Community that develops among friends during a delicious meal.

7. With what prediction does Augustine start "On Christian Doctrine"?
(a) The work will face three kinds of criticism.
(b) Christians will gather around a uniform doctrine.
(c) Christians will transform society through piety and rhetorical skill.
(d) God will assure that the Church will become the primary social force in the world.

8. When Augustine focuses on one of the types of criticism he expects to receive, what does he suggest to the reader?
(a) That these types of critics will either understand Scripture or believe they do.
(b) That these types of critics are a threat to the true Church.
(c) That these types of critics are stagnant in their thoughts and threaten to limit the influence of Divine guidance.
(d) That these types of critics, if they gather a following around their criticism, are dangerously close to practicing heresy.

9. What setting does Augustine recommend for sound Scriptural learning?
(a) An ecclesiastical structure.
(b) A private audience with a well-trained Priest.
(c) A properly sanctioned site of Scriptural education.
(d) Human communities.

10. Who does Augustine suggest has the ability to know the Truth?
(a) Illuminated minds.
(b) Minds God endowed with special gifts.
(c) All minds.
(d) All minds joined in community.

11. What does Augustine consider to be the ultimate thing to be enjoyed?
(a) The things that God places in nature for us to use.
(b) The things that we can develop from our special gifts.
(c) The Trinity of Christianity.
(d) The concept of Christian love as practiced in community.

12. What does Augustine consider as God's typical means of delivering His illumination?
(a) Using the"still quiet moments" to deliver His illumination.
(b) Using humans to deliver His illumination.
(c) Using nature to deliver His illumination.
(d) Using adversity to deliver His illumination.

13. What is the second important distinction that Augustine makes in Book One?
(a) The distinction between Christian love and pagan love.
(b) The distinction between things and signs.
(c) The distinction between encouraging and exhortation.
(d) The distinction between enjoy and use.

14. What is the doctrine that Augustine claims critics of human teaching defend?
(a) That God will communicate through tongues.
(b) That God will communicate the meaning of Scripture through "special gifts."
(c) That God will communicate through signs and symbols.
(d) That God will communicate through the in dwelling of the Holy Spirit.

15. How does Augustine characterize things in Book One?
(a) They are all items that fall under God's authority.
(b) They are the items that God puts before Christians to use.
(c) They are the items that God puts before Christians to enjoy.
(d) They are ordinary objects that are not used to signify something.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Augustine suggest a conception of Christian love will serve for the student?

2. Augustine wrote that the critics he mainly focuses on in the Preface base their positions on what belief?

3. What are the two main tools that God uses to teach men what to do, as identified by Augustine?

4. What is an important distinction that Augustine teaches students to understand through three Books of "On Christian Doctrine?

5. What does Augustine encourage his critics to remember in the Preface?

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